This week: Invasion!

[captain1ma]

Map changed, fight over!

[gyrene81]

That grossly over simplifies things.  The engine in the Spitfire Mk XVI was not the engine used in any P-51.  It was a Packard built Merlin 66 with the full throttle height about 1000ft higher and using American tooling thus requiring different tools for maintainance, and that tooling difference is the reason for it being called a Mk XVI instead of a Mk IX.  If you compare the performance curves on the AH Spitfire Mk VIII (Merlin 66) with the Spitfire Mk XVI's (Merlin 266) you will notice that the full throttle altitudes are the same.  In otherwords the aircraft labeled as a "Spitfire Mk XVI" in AH is actually a Spitfire LF.Mk IXe powered by a Merlin 66 and not a Spitfire Mk XVI at all.

Then go talk to the people who keep the records at the Spitfire society...obviously you know more about their airplanes than they do.

I'm just the messenger. 

[BnZs]

Here we go again.  Where's CorkyJr to explain that a Spit XVI differs from a LF IXe in name only?

If you added the 109G-14 as a sub for the 109G-6/AS, then you'd a have a counter to the Spit XVI, and everything would be, more or less, historically accurate.

Btw, shouldn't the P-51D be there as well?

What're you going to add to sub for the 190As that are ~12mph too slow?

[Anaxogoras]

BnZs, you know that no one attempting to represent a historic setup in AH can make choices based on individual FM evaluations.  I see your point, but there's nothing that could be done about it.